The same split lost them the other way round: the merge base held both changes, each branch had reset
the other's files, and the three-way merge kept neither. Both halves of hq ADR 0161 are on main again
with this.
The uplink branch was split from the vault's with the vault's files reset to a main that did not yet
hold #205; merging it afterwards took the older vault definition along (no claim, the refused event
names), and the vault could not be built. Restored to #205's state.
A module publishes under its own name only; secret.provisioned read as another module's event and the
builder refused the vault's definition today, so the seat claim could not be built. The three events lose
the prefix; nothing outside the vault listens for the old names.
The vault's claim makes a second provider of secret a second claimant, refused by name. The three
uplink definitions declare uplink-networkmanager, uplink-systemd-networkd and uplink-dhcpcd, which the
host reports for the manager it finds active, so the holder for a manager the machine does not run
is refused the way any missing capability is. Merges after the controller holds the seat and the host
reports the capability.
The store's databases and query are registered under mesh-store, so the runtime serves them on the
seat's subjects wherever postgres holds the seat and never lists them as postgres's own; the claim
names them, so the mesh can judge the holder without postgres listing the seat's verbs among its
tools. Scoped to what the store enables: creating a database stays postgres's tool.
bazarr, bookshelf, lidarr, nzbget, ombi, plex, qbittorrent, radarr,
sonarr and tautulli live in novox/mesh-media-catalog (#195 moved jackett
and left these behind). A build of this repository at a commit today
registered plex and nzbget from these copies, which carry no provides,
and ace's plan stopped resolving. Nothing here depends on the directories:
home-assistant consumes their provisions by name.
Named as the seat names them so the runtime finds them by name; the same calls as its own tools.
Its definition now lists its tools, which is what holding a seat with verbs demands at registration.
Merge before the controller declares the verbs on the mesh-store seat.
Both land in settings.js and the runtime's config file, and the containers that read them restart
on those files; a rotation is a new value and a restart. The broker credential says nothing yet: its
other party is the bus, and that rotation is the two-party form.
Ten tools the console lacked for the actions a review and a merge leave behind: close or reopen a
pull request whose work landed elsewhere, change its title or body, read its files, its diff and its
comments, reopen an issue, read one file at a ref, list branches, delete the branch a closed pull
request leaves. Each is the client's own call; `gitea_api` stays the escape hatch for the rest.
Tested against the fake forge through the compiled tools, the way the console calls them (13/13).
The container mounted /services/media literally — one installation's path
(ADR 0112). The access is now declared by id and mounted as ${access:media};
the assignment says where the library is (ace: /storage/media, hq 153).
The module named /var/lib/n8n, /services/n8n/n8n-data and n8n.novox.be -
paths and a domain no definition may carry (ADR 0112). State and data are
placed directories; the public name is ${bound:route:name} (depends on
mesh-controller #149), for N8N_HOST and WEBHOOK_URL alike.
The endpoint said 5682 while the container publishes 5678. 5682 was one
machine's host port; the endpoint is the software's port and the mesh
assigns the machine's (ADR 0038).
n8n had been run from an image in a registry that no longer exists: the
upstream image plus shadow, a `media` group (2000) with `node` in it, and
a global `uuid`. That recipe is now this module's Dockerfile, built on the
upstream 1.71.3 image named in build.on by digest, with uuid pinned to the
version the running image carries (14.0.1) - Code nodes require() it. The
media group is how the container writes into the shared media library, a
read-write `access` (ADR 0051), mounted where workflows expect it,
/media-library.
The workflows also use a redis (the Redis nodes of the chat workflows) and a
Selenium Chrome (the scraper), which the previous deployment ran beside n8n.
Both are containers on the module's own network, publishing nothing, pinned
to the digests in use; redis keeps its append-only file in a placed
directory.
The basic-auth secret is gone: N8N_BASIC_AUTH_* was removed in n8n 1.0 and
did nothing. The grant's password is a 0400 file owned by `node`, read
through DB_POSTGRESDB_PASSWORD_FILE, so nothing secret is in the
environment. The credentials' encryption key is n8n's own, in the data
directory (config), and moves with it - nothing to mint or accept.
Verified: catalogue tests with MESH_CATALOGUE set; the Dockerfile built
against the pinned base gives n8n 1.71.3, uid 1000 in group 2000, uuid
14.0.1 - the running image's shape. Throwaway containers: an instance on
PostgreSQL 15 with an owner, a workflow and an encrypted credential;
stopped, copied, dumped from the copy, restored (--no-owner --role, the
uuid-ossp extension pre-made by the superuser) into a grant-shaped
database on the postgres module's pgvector image (PG17); the new shape
(password from the file, data dir copied) serves /healthz, the owner logs
in, the workflow is listed, and the credential decrypts with the carried
key. The node user writes into a root:2000 0775 library through the media
group; redis and Selenium resolve by name on the module network and
Selenium reports ready. Test containers and data removed.
Ten definitions name each access by id; the path stays as the default an assignment may replace,
and the host side of every mount says ${access:<id>}. Resolved with no placement, every definition
names exactly the paths it named before (TestPlacedDirectoriesKeepTheirPaths, extended). On an
adopted machine the assignment now says `accesses: {<id>: <path>}` and the mount follows.
Needs the controller that knows an access id (mesh-controller #176); the running one refuses the
field at registration.
Consumers read `${bound:smtp:domain}` and `${bound:oidc-client:issuer}`, and both keys reached
them only because a module's settings were laid over everything it served. Issue 173 stops that: a
setting overrides a key a served fact declares and adds none. So the two providers declare the keys
their consumers read, as the operator's value (`${setting:…}`, ADR 0155), and the setting that
already carries each fills it. Nothing a consumer reads changes.
Merges first: under the controller that still merges settings over served facts this is the same
value, and the controller that stops merging (mesh-controller, feat/the-mesh-places-its-own-files)
needs these declared before it rolls out.
48 definitions stop naming /var/lib/mesh/<module>: the directory says `place: "mesh"`, the two
subdirectories beneath it (gitea's runtime state, anthropic-manager's output) state their path
beneath it, and every credential, binding, merged file and mount names it as ${dir:mesh-state}.
Resolved on the default root, every definition names exactly the paths it named before —
TestPlacedDirectoriesKeepTheirPaths in mesh-controller, run over both checkouts. Needs the
controller that knows the word (mesh-controller, same branch) one release ahead.
jackett leaves: it is registered from novox/mesh-media-catalog with sonarr,
radarr, lidarr, bazarr, nzbget, qbittorrent, bookshelf, plex, tautulli,
kometa and ombi (PRs 145-168 consolidated there). What those branches
changed outside the chain stays here: home-assistant's provisions
(sonarr-api, radarr-api, mqtt-topic — from #147) and searxng's sidecar
dialling the port it was given (#154).
Twenty-eight modules' data directories are placed: the root as place ".", a sub-directory named by
its id, and every host-side reference — binds, secrets, own secrets, grants, receives, file paths,
mounts, env-files — as ${dir:<id>}. Resolved on the default root every path is the one the manifest
named before, which the controller's TestPlacedDirectoriesKeepTheirPaths proves over both checkouts;
so no data moves and no machine sees a change. Five directories whose id is not their last segment
keep their path as a placement (novox/hq issue 119, ADR 0112, design 27).
The forge's own users are the mesh's to settle — making the builder's login
a site admin so private repos build (hq 229) — and the tools' token had no
write:admin. A token kept from before a scope was added lacks it, so the
client now treats the forge's 403 "required scope" like a 401: the source
re-mints by name with the whole list and retries once. The fake forge in the
tests learns /repos/search, which the client has used since 2026-09-28 and
which had left 9 of the 11 token tests failing on main.
listens said 4000 while the container publishes 8080; the old assignment's port setting hid it, and
the rename lost the setting, so the proxy dialled a port nothing answered (2026-09-30).
The rename changed the network resource's name and not the container's network, so the container
looked for a network that no longer exists and the site answered 502 (2026-09-30).
9090:9000 and 9443:9443 were the predecessor's machine numbers written into the
definition. The manifest now says 9000 and 9443 and the mesh assigns the
machine ports on each node (the portainer slice of #173, which is stale).
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